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Doug Clark

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News >  Spokane

Border crossings open up bounty of low-tax living

On Tuesday afternoon I drove to Post Falls, where I bought enough booze for Lindsay Lohan’s hoosegow release party. I hobbled out of the Idaho liquor store lugging a half-gallon of Jack Daniel’s, a fifth of Patrón Silver tequila, a bottle of Bacardi rum …
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: I’ve grown very attuned to mosquitoes

There are two kinds of people populating this mosquito-infested planet. There are lucky stiffs like my lovely wife, Sherry. She could spend a week in Skeeter Hollow wearing only shorts and a T-shirt. Out she’d come out as untouched as a crucifix at Dracula’s castle. Then there are the accursed itching souls like yours truly.
News >  Spokane

Mielke, Richard flush with raceway money

I see county commissioners voted last week to feed more of our money into the Spokane County Raceway near Airway Heights. This time, as outlined in reporter John Craig’s revealing news story, the park was given $250,000 for some “safety and accessibility improvements.”
News >  Spokane

Pain? Let me tell hoopsters about pain

A lot of people (my 87-year-old mother, for one) keep telling me that men of my enhanced age and waistline have no business playing competitive sports. And to this I say, “Nonsense!”
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Playing for others’ suppers

The eighth annual Spokane Street Music Week kicked off Monday on the sidewalks of downtown Spokane with some 60 performers donating their talents to raise money for the Second Harvest Inland Northwest Food Bank. The event continues during the noon hours through Friday. Monday saw jazzers, bluegrassers and blowers of horns. A sizable group of high-stepping Highland dancers, drummers and bagpipers from Shadle Park High School wowed crowds in the Parkade courtyard.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Lead sled unsuccessful as a float

REPUBLIC, Wash. – The sun shone gloriously Saturday, turning this quaint and historic Ferry County mining town into a dazzling prelude of summer. Or Hell’s Waiting Room – if you happened to be inside my cherry red 1967 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser that was traveling slower than a constipated slug in the 53rd annual Prospectors’ Days parade.
News >  Spokane

Otto’s much-delayed day in court on hold, again

Wouldn’t it be great if the judicial system moved as efficiently as it does in the movies? Take that great, old film “The Verdict,” for example. That was a highly complicated medical malpractice case. Yet Paul Newman managed to get it wrapped up favorably in barely over two hours.
News >  Spokane

Beard contest jogs memories of follicle foibles

When I read the press release announcing that a Spokane man will compete for a $1,000 prize Saturday at the 2010 National Beard and Moustache Championships in Bend, Ore., my immediate thought was ... Have terrorists slipped Rogaine-laced LSD into the Bend water system?
News >  Spokane

Clark Collection will enliven family fun at funeral home

The big Memorial Day weekend blowouts at Spokane’s Heritage Funeral Home have paid homage over the years to deceased icons like Abraham Lincoln, Bing Crosby, Amelia Earhart, Elvis and even the king called Tut. The free events are wildly popular, which is amazing considering that funeral homes are not normally associated with the phrase “fun for the whole family.”
News >  Spokane

Ombudsman can’t polish police image

For the record, I am all in favor of elevating our police ombudsman into something more than a Spokane Police Guild sock puppet. But do I think giving Tim Burns broader investigative powers is the solution to healing our troubled city law enforcement?
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Little under LaHood in that car

I’ve been in the news biz since the grimy days of Nixon, which means it takes a lot to turn my stomach. But despite my hardened sensibilities, a photograph we published the other day made me good and queasy.
News >  Spokane

Get your act together for Street Music Week

In a positively shocking flash of municipal efficiency, the mayor’s office this week e-mailed me a draft of my eighth annual Spokane Street Music proclamation, even though … A. I hadn’t yet asked for it.